ABC13’s data team is tracking crime and safety across Houston and in your neighborhood.
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Thefts
70,260

Last 12 months
Through April 2022

Average Thefts
69,675

Yearly average
2019 to 2021

Theft Rate
3,049

Per 100,000 people
Last 12 months

Average Theft Rate
3,023

Per 100,000 people
2019 to 2021


Thefts are up 1% over the last 12 months compared to the average from 2019-2021.

The city averaged 1,351 thefts a week since last May. In 2019, that number was 1,407 a week.

The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.

About 49% of Houton residents live in neighborhoods where the theft rate over the last 12 months is down or about the same as the three-year average. About 2% live in neighborhoods where the theft rate is up more than 20%.

Houston thefts neighborhood by neighborhood

ABC13’s data team looked at the Houston Police Department’s data, beat by beat across the city to provide this look at trends by neighborhood from 2019 through last month.

The map color-codes each neighborhood by the theft rate over the last 12 months, through the end of April, which is the most recent comprehensive data released by the Houston Police Department.

The yellow areas are neighborhoods where the theft rate is among the 25% highest rates in the city. You can click on any neighborhood to see detailed figures, rates and trends.

ABC13 will be updating this data every month.

However, in the vast majority of neighborhoods in the city, the rate is much lower. In 17 of 118 of the Houston Police Department’s, the theft rate was zero last year. Filler, filler, filler.